Jill Ammon-Wexler - How Successful People Think Smart: 7 Ways You Can Develop Their Mind Power

PEOPLE WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL in their personal and business lives all share one common secret theyve learned to use their brain in some very special ways. The result? A massive increase in personal power, and the resulting ability to achieve their dreams and goals while others fall by the wayside discouraged.

Lets face it your brain is your ultimate success tool. Literally everything you think, dream, say and do all starts in the same place your amazing 3-pound brain. All creativity, personal power, and success starts there. And YOU alone make the choice to develop, or overlook, your brains staggering potential.

Your brain is far more than the simple stimulus-response machine scientists was once thought to be. Its actually the most dynamic, changeable organ of your entire body. In just the past few years, scientists have found that your brain constantly alters itself to physically adapt to your thoughts, actions and circumstances.

The brain of a successful person is different from the brain of an average person, but successful people were not necessarily born hardwired with high performance brains. Our brains change and develop according to what we CHOOSE to do with its potential.

The differences in the successful persons brain are the result of a brain characteristic scientists refer to as neuroplasticity. What IS neuroplasticity? Todays high tech brain studies show that every time we feel an emotion, take an action, or even think a thought, our brain responds by instantly changing. In is, in short, "plastic" and not "set in stone."

You can literally build a more efficient and capable brain by taking active control of this process.

The brains of successful people have several very specific characteristics youll discover in these pages, including a seemingly endless ability to sustain a desired effort, outrageous creativity, and an exceptional ability to maintain motivation and focus on goal-directed behavior.

As a result successful people think and act far more efficiently and effectively than ordinary people.

When asked to visualize their brains, most people picture a grey wrinkled mass that somehow allows them to remember and think. This mini book is not intended to serve as a course on brain function and anatomy. Still, it is very helpful to begin to think of your brain in terms of using its sophisticated structure and functions.

Several areas of the brain are known to be especially important to the high performance brain. The first time such an area is mentioned I will name it and explain a little bit about it. In the meantime, here is a simplified function-related picture of your brain you can refer back to for the overall picture:

So then, this takes us to the question of what makes the brains of successful people function different?

GETTING WHAT YOU WANT in life has very little to do with your education, your IQ, your financial situation, who you know or what your parents do. It has virtually everything to do with whats happening in your brain and how you respond to it.

Its important to be aware that your brain is not static. It changes with virtually every one of your thoughts, memories, emotions or actions.

You can take advantage of brain "plasticity" to literally TRAIN your brain to duplicate the special ways successful people have developed and use their brains. This book focuses on how to unlock your brains potential to help YOU achieve your dreams and goals faster.

The 7 things that make the brains of successful person different are:

1. Functional Balance Successful people have fully developed the ability to simultaneously use both sides of their brain, while ordinary people primarily focus on one side of their brain or the other.
2. Refined Focus Successful people have a refined ability to focus on a problem or activity in spite of whats going on around them. They have also developed the extremely valuable ability to single-task, rather than multi-task.
3. Steady Motivation For most people motivation comes and goes, while successful people have discovered ways to prime their brain to push right through the occasional boring tasks and bumps in the road that stop ordinary people in their tracks.
4. Flexible Thinking Successful people actively stretch their brains in ways that allow them to easily identify new and unique answers to challenges.
5. Unusual Creativity Successful people use their creative muscles in a very special way to create more Aha breakthroughs, insights and promising new solutions.
6. Unstoppable Resilience Knock a successful person to the ground and theyll be back on their feet even more determined. They know that any failure simply eliminates one possible approach to a question or challenge that does not work. This is a learned skill.
7. Future Orientation Successful people look to the future and not the past.

How have successful people developed these unique brain powers? It all starts with awareness. They have developed a refined self-awareness that makes them more conscious of whats going on around them, including the responses of others to their plans and actions.